Category Archives: Apartments

Finally, after a decade of the fights with the Army Corps of Engineers over wetlands and then the real estate downturn, something is finally going to happen with this big empty field I drive by every day. Monday night, Columbus City Council approved by a vote of 7 – 0 the 330 acre, $250 million…

As was just reported by Walker Evens of Columbus Underground, and just about everyone else, Borror Properties revealed its latest design update for the 11 story proposed replacement for the old pre WWII White Castle located at second and HN High Street. After feedback from the Victorian Village Commission in April, Borror made some very…

This is just amazing. Another mega project for LA’s south Park with a newly announced multi tower project with high rises up to 42 stories to be located at Olympic and Figueroa all the way to Eleventh and Flower. China’s developer, Shenzhen Hazens Real Estate Groupis currently in the ntotlement process on the Gensler designed…

In my 30 years in LA, never did I think I would see something like the following happening. South Park, roughly defined as southwest of the Arts District, south of downtown Los Angeles, east of the 110 and north of the 10, has 28 new developments in progress. Historically, what is now known as South…

Dublin Ohio’s Planning and Zoning Commission has approved what is to date the largest of the developments in the Bridge Street District. The construction of the 420 unit apartment complex will allow the city to begin construction of the John Shields Parkway connector from Village Parkway to Tuller Ridge Drive. Tuller Flats, once completed will…

The trickle of development in Franklinton will soon turn to a torrent as this long long neglected area becomes the next Short North. So here’s another small piece with a 69 unit work loft with first floor Columbus net leased retail located at 400 W Rich St. designed by Jonathan Barnes Architecture and Design. The entire…

I didn’t get chance to get out and take any pictures in the last month so I’ll turn this topic over to Walker Evans with Columbus Underground at the link below the text. In January work progressed pretty well, but February has been a different story. I would expect some of these commercial construction projects…

As downtown Columbus multiunit rents get silly and two bedroom flats can run $2,500 per month, there need to be an alternative for those who work downtown. The solution has been in major high rent coastal cities to more toward micro apartments with just about enough room to inhale and exhale. That trend is coming…

The City of Columbus announced that they have chosen Brad DeHays and Schiff Capital to redevelop the three buildings that comprise the long closed Columbus Municipal Power Plant property at 555 West Nationwide Blvd. The three buildings mentioned above are all on the north side of Nationwide Blvd. The plan is to add retail, office…

The reimagining of Pacific Palisades’ Palisades Village has been underway for years by Rick Caruso, developer of The Grove and Americana at Brand. Now the actual work is about to begin and is expected to be completed in 2017. Palisades is one of if not my favorite Southern California suburbs, but had become a little…

Better late than never is the story with this new ground floor net leased retail mixed use building with 131 apartment units above. It’s on the northwest corner of Washington Blvd and Hughes Avenue in Palms, bordering Palms and Culver City. Developed by NMS Properties with Architects Killefer Flammang in Santa Monica. The building will…

It was announced today that it was local developer, Edwards Communities that was picked to develop Ohio State University’s South Campus Gateway. The retail, office and residential development will be one step closer to connecting the short North with OSU and Weinland Park. The seven acre development is mostly east of high Street in the…

It took developer Michael Cusumano two years to get this through Burbank’s planning commission and city council, and despite the objections of Burbank’s mayor, the project finally got approved. Residents complained as always that the project will jack up traffic flow. The developer will have to drop $250,000 to go toward ‘traffic calming’ measures and…

We haven’t seen much new for Reseda in decades so this is a significant start. Now that the LA river waterfront is beginning the process of partial deconstruction with a planned continuous landscaped riverfront complete with walking and biking paths we’ll begin to see a revitalization of mixed use retail and multifamily condo and apartment…

Downtown Los Angeles News (DTNews) just recapped the truly mega number of commercial developments underway or in planning stages for downtown for a total of 94 today with 14 of those added since late spring. Plans are for at least 3,000 new residential units, Condos and apartments, in just the 14 new projects announced since…

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked Columbus, Ohio eighth for economic growth according to new data that takes a fresh look at economic output generated by individual U.S. metro areas. Columbus came in at nearly double the national average of 1.7 percent with 3.2 percent GDP growth since 2012 “The metros where economic output…

No, it’s not a proposal for Columbus to host the 20xx Olympics, but it is a large 152 unit mixed use development with ground floor mixed use retail and possibly office with three floors of multiunit residential on top in Clintonville to be named the Olympic. And finally something a little different in architecture for…

648 condos in the twin 35 story towers will sit above eight stories of retail, parking and electronic signage in place of the two huge surface parking lots that face Staples Center now. The condos will range in size from 750 square feet to over 4,000. A hotel may also be part of the project…

For the 32nd annual show there was a record turnout last weekend with around 1,400 cars present, including me of course. The perfect weather with no rain and moderate temperatures surely helped. As I’ve written about here many times, Dublin, Ohio has some big plans ahead for the revitalization of Dublin Granville Road from Sawmill…

Ohio State University plans to start the rezoning process for the Campus Partners for Community Urban Redevelopment properties on 7 acres immediately south of the existing South Campus Gateway. This will be mixed use including ground floor retail with office space and residential above. The rezoning process will begin next month and is expected to be…